Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that could prevent disaster.
Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too close ...
ZME Science1d
Packed Festival Crowds Aren’t Chaotic — They Form Living Vortices, Which Can Be Predicted with Physics
Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of ...
The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede
A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.
Bison herd stampedes through crowd of people in Yellowstone. See the ‘close call’
A pack of wolves took down a bison in Yellowstone National Park and attracted a crowd of people — that the rest of the bison herd then charged into. Wildlife photographer Jeff Vanuga captured a photo ...